If you haven’t been following this story, I would suggest checking out our previous posts here and here.

Usually I love the immaturity that spawns from bullshit band situations like this. There’s a certain art, however, to going about making yourself look good when you’re in a position like bass player Max Green is in now. How hard can it be to be the better man when the other guy in question is in jail from skipping parole, having battery charges and was in a brawl that left a kid dead? Well, I’ll let his blog do the talking…

To Ronnie Radke formely of Escape The Fate
Current mood: fuckin over it

I REALLY HOPE THAT RONNIE LEARNS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS BECAUSE HE NEVER EVER HAS, AND THAT WAS ALWAYS THE REASON FOR PROBLEMS IN THE BAND.
HE WENT OUT TO THE DESERT THAT DAY, HE BROUGHT A WEAPON AND HE CHOSE TO NOT QUIT DOING DRUGS.
ALL THE WHILE I PRACTICALLY BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO TELLING HIM HOW ITS NOT WORTH IT AND WHO CARES.

All capslock? UNLEASH THE FURY!!!!!

AND AS FAR AS ME BEING THE CULPRIT AND DESERVING TO BE IN PRISON INSTEAD OF RONNIE…….WELL THATS THE BIGGEST LOAD OF SHIT IVE EVER HEARD, I DIDNT BRING A WEAPON TO A FIST FIGHT, I DIDNT TELL MY FRIENDS TO COME BACK ME UP AND TELL THEM TO BRING THEIR GUNS, I DIDNT STEAL MY DRUMMERS BAND DEBIT CARD AND SPEND ALL OF EVERYONES HARD EARNED MONEY ON DRUGS AND THEN LIE AND ACCUSE OTHER PEOPLE OF IT. AND I DONT HAVE A RECORD FOR DRUGS AND OTHER SHIT.
AS A MATTER OF FACT I DONT HAVE A RECORD FOR ANYTHING AND I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT AT ALL IN ANY WAY WITH THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED THAT DAY IN THE DESERT.

AS FAR AS PEOPLE SAYING RONNIE NEEDS A 2ND CHANCE AND ITS NOT FAIR, WELL HES HAD WAY TO MANY 2ND CHANCES, AFTER REHAB, AFTER THE INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER, AFTER THE PROBATION, AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF TOURS FOR DELIBERATELY STARTING PROBLEMS WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE AND ABOUT A MILLION OTHER TIMES AS WELL.

SORRY RONNIE OR WHOEVER WROTE THAT BLOG FOR HIM, BUT YOU WERE NEVER THE BAND, PERIOD.
YOU CAN THINK YOU ARE AND THAT YOU DID EVERYTHING ALL YOU WANT, BUT YOUR WRONG!!
YOUR A LEGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND, AND NOW THAT YOUR NOT IN THE BAND ANYMORE WE CAN ACTUALLY ACT LIKE A REAL BAND AND GO ON TOUR AND LEAVE THE UNITED STATES, LIKE HOW WE JUST WENT TO NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA.

ILL NEVER LIVE IN YOUR SHADOW AND I WOULD NEVER WANT TO, I DONT RESPECT YOU AND I DONT ADMIRE OR LOOK UP TO YOU IN THE LEAST BIT OF ANY WAY.

NOT YOUR FRIEND,
MAX GREEN

Kinda TL;DR, but I know the fan-girls will appreciate it.  I listened to their music for the first time yesterday, and needless to say I wasn’t too impressed.

During last night’s date of the Coheed and Cambria / Madina Lake / Circa Survive UK tour in Brixton, some building drama between headliners Coheed and support band Madina Lake apparently boiled over into fisticuffs, when a member of Madina Lake’s crew was apparently served in the middle of the band’s set by Coheed’s TM. From the band’s Myspace blog:

hey guys, it’s important to us that you know this. what happened had nothing to with balloons, confetti, how we were treated or anything like that. the tour manager of coheed physically attacked a member of our family, right there on stage in front of everyone. our dude was trying to do his job and this guy grabbed him and punched him in the face on stage in front of 5k people right in the middle of a song. fan, friend, enemy…it doesn’t matter…i’m sure you can all agree that you would defend your family if they were assaulted right in front of you, completely unprovoked. we want this to blow over as much as you guys so we won’t sit here and whine about the other shit (we never did and never will).. here’s to you and your support and how much we love you all .. cheers bitches.

You can see a bit of the action towards the end of this video off to the right of the screen:

UPDATE: The plot thickens. According to the chatter on the venerable Absolutepunk.net, the Coheed camp’s side of the story is a little different. It goes thusly:

“So, about halfway through the tour, ML was asked kindly to stop using confetti-filled balloons onstage so that the stage would not be a confetti and water covered disaster area for Coheed’s set. A simple enough request, but ML continued to use the balloons for every night after that. Before the show that all this happened at, there was a big meeting with all the bands, the tour managers, and the Kerrang manager. The agreement was that ML has GOT to stop using the balloons, and they agreed to that.

But, before their set, someone found 20 or so filled balloons that they had hidden away so no one would find them. This made Claudio very mad, because it was a simple request that they even agreed to honor. So he went and popped all of the balloons beforehand with a pen so they couldn’t use those and had no time to fill more.

This made ML angry. So they were dissing Coheed onstage. And then one of ML’s guitar techs comes out with a big box of confetti to dump over everything. One of Coheed’s techs sees this and grabs him in an attempt to stop him. When ML sees this, the band comes over to Coheed’s tech and beat him with their own instruments.”

DAMN.